Hi all,
This one might be specific to just me, i don't know.

I have an NFS share, which is mounted on boot. Therein resides my mp3 collection.

I've pointed my Amarok (2.2.1) at the folder where the nfs shares are mounted locally and scanned that folder as my local collection.

I've then used that local collection to create a playlist of songs. All works great. Except on a restart.

When i restart the computer or quit and restart Amarok, it loads some default playlist that only shows a fraction (233 out of 806 songs) of the playlist i originally created. It's weird.

So far i've rescanned my collection, renamed my playlist, deleted the existing incorrect playlist and reinserted my original playlist, purged and reinstalled Amarok (including deleting the whole of the home/user/.kde/share/apps/amarok folder and restarting from scratch) but the problem keeps reappearing. It's as if there's a corrupt playlist entry somewhere that keeps getting loaded on start, except i've completely wiped the /home/user/.kde/share/apps/amarok folder and the problem persists.

It's really starting to pain me to have to go into Amarok after every restart and reselect my playlist because the one that loads by default is an incomplete, messed-up version of the correct one.

Oh, i think there's also a bug where if you select the playlist to playback random by track and select repeat 'playlist', the random goes bye-bye.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Ok, i've discovered that when Amarok writes a new current.xspf on exit, it's not inserting all of the tracks from the playlist. This file (current.xspf) is then loaded the next time Amarok starts and has only part of the original playlist.

Is there a reason it's discriminating and selectively choosing just some tracks and not others? All the mp3's reside in the same place.

Perhaps it's just picking one file from within each folder? So, for example, i'll create a playlist including two 10cc tracks, but the current.xpsf created when i exit Amarok will only have one of the 10cc tracks included. Both the original playlist and folder have both tracks, like

/home/user/Fileserver/Music/10cc/
10cc - i'm not in love.mp3
10cc - dreadlock holiday.mp3

The current.xpsf will only have dreadlock holiday in it, perhaps because it's first alphabetically?

I think this a bug. Can someone confirm and help?

Thanks very much.

Edit for clarity.

Yes, that sounds definitely like a bug. Could you please report this here:

http://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=amarok